Doris Ober - The Alzheimer Years

Please note: this event will be a reading and a conversation with the audience

In an account as good-humored as it is heart-warming, readers meet Betty at age 89. She is clever and funny, still the life of a party, loves puns and poetry, does all her own cooking and house cleaning. Once a nurse, she reads blood pressures at a local assisted-living facility with her own stethoscope and cuff. She leads a walking group, participates in Yiddish theater and in her local Jewish Center's annual senior fashion show. She has a group of three or four very close friends, and a very large circle of friendly acquaintances.

Betty is also afflicted with Alzheimer's disease and with the less-well-known Lewy body disease, but it will be years more before this is understood. In the meantime, Betty moves to Point Reyes Station from Palo Alto, California to be closer to her daughter. Leavened with illustrative letters, poetry, and genuinely funny moments, The Alzheimer's Years: A Mother and Daughter Reuniun ($15.00), a daughter's story of her mother's last years is also the story of a fractured relationship that healed, and love that grew.

Doris Ober is an independent editor and author's collaborator in the California Bay Area; managing editor of West Marin Review, a literary and art journal; and author of The Dogtown Chronicles: Our Life and Times with Sheep, Goats, Llamas, and Other Creatures.

 

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